http://www.roadsideamerica.com/blog/hatchet-hannah-bobble-head/ Road trip news, rants, and ruminations by the Editors of RoadsideAmerica.com Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:05:45 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.roadsideamerica.com/blog/hatchet-hannah-bobble-head/comment-page-1/#comment-180 Dave Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:27:27 +0000 http://www.roadsideamerica.com/blog/?p=130#comment-180 Let us not forget the Solders’ Monument in North Park, Barre, MA. It was originally erected in Haverhill in 1861 for Hannah Duston, making it the first monument commemorating a woman to be erected in the United States. Historic or not, the Dustin-Duston Association was not able to raise the funds to pay for the monument, so it was repossessed, re-carved and sold to Barre. It would be 1874 before Hannah got another (non-bobble head) statue, the one in Boscawen, NH with Haverhill rejoining the party in 1879. Let us not forget the Solders’ Monument in North Park, Barre, MA. It was originally erected in Haverhill in 1861 for Hannah Duston, making it the first monument commemorating a woman to be erected in the United States. Historic or not, the Dustin-Duston Association was not able to raise the funds to pay for the monument, so it was repossessed, re-carved and sold to Barre. It would be 1874 before Hannah got another (non-bobble head) statue, the one in Boscawen, NH with Haverhill rejoining the party in 1879.

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